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<i>Pip Cheshire:</i> Super City presents chance to shape Auckland

Pip Cheshire writes on the pitfalls of good urban design in Auckland planning.

Brown pays back council card spending

Len Brown has admitted making personal purchases on his council credit card, including a $148 mini hi-fi system for a family event.

Chinese lecturer reveals secrets of controlled news

Uruguay's poorest president

<i>Matt McCarten</i>: Tragedy opens doors to solving Palestinian crisis

<i>Editorial</i>: Talk is not enough, Minister

<i>Kerre Woodham</i>: High price to pay for helping out

Clinton's birthday greetings premature

Rudd in swamp of bad-news polls

<i>John Armstrong</i>: Paler Greens struggle to seize opportunities

<i>Cartoon</i>: The week that was, part 1

<i>Liam Dann</i>: NZX bitten by free-market principles

<i>Brian Gaynor</i>: Why Kiwibank is hungry for capital

Detained NZer saw activist killed

NZ activist Nicola Enchmarch says she saw a man shot in the head by Israeli forces after they stormed her Gaza-bound aid ship.

Bush unrepentant

Obama staff summonsed to testify in graft trial

Progress steady on transtasman market, says Power

Green groups pleased with new authority